Tallahassee Community Remembrance Project

On February 29, 2020, the Tallahassee Community Remembrance Project (TCRP), a coalition of 46 partner organizations and faith communities, led a soil collection ceremony at the corner of E. Gaines and S. Meridian Streets to remember the four documented victims of lynching in Leon County: Pierce Taylor, Mick Morris, Ernest Ponder and Richard Hawkins. On July 17, 2021, a historical lynching marker was unveiled and dedicated at the same location with 400 people in attendance. This year, on February 12, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., the TCRP will hold its first annual remembrance at the marker. Dr. Maxine Jones, history professor and women studies director at Florida State University, will speak concerning Leon County’s victims. Immediately following that remembrance, FSU history professor Dr. Jennifer Koslow will make a presentation at 3:00 p.m. in the parish hall at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 211 N. Monroe Street, concerning six more Leon County men who were taken by law enforcement to Lake City in 1911 but who were removed from the jail under false pretenses and lynched there, in Columbia County. Please enter the parish hall from the Calhoun Street entrance. Both events are free and open to the public.